One of the biggest benefits of joining ZBIN is access to premium chats where we bring a lot of experts from the forum for presentations and sometimes trainings. We generally prefer inhouse expertise and this helps our members to know each other well and network. Our first Premium Chat of the year focused on equipping our members on Artificial Intelligence overview and testing basic tools.
We bring you the initial presentation minus the question and answers and the trials by members.
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Ntate Victor: Good evening esteemed Zbinites,
And it’s my pleasure to present to you our first host of the year, Silas.
And he has an interesting topic of AI.
Over to you Silas
Silas: Wonderful
I’m grateful there’s someone. So I decided to put this presentation in writing so that our fellow friends that could be busy at the moment won’t miss out.
Silas: Before I go any further. Let me start by introducing myself
My name Silas Takunda Chidlamakonho. I’m a certified drone pilot who have worked with different schools around the nation to educate students on drones, robotics, artificial intelligence and internet of things. I’m also a student currently studying aircraft engineering and I’m passionate about farming; Mmmm seems like a recipe for disaster right
Anyways today I’m excited to share on how AI can transform business operations and decision-making in today’s world and explore how we can leverage technology to drive growth and innovation, but before that we have to understand what is AI.
Silas: So what is AI or Artificial Intelligence?
AI, or Artificial Intelligence , is the field of creating computer systems that can perform tasks that normally require human intelligence.
In simple terms: AI is the making of machines that can think, learn, and make decisions as people do.
Many people have bracketed AI into robots and self driving vehicles only but that’s not it, AI is a broad term.
Moving forward
Let’s just get a brief background of AI .
Artificial Intelligence began in the 1950s when scientists started exploring whether machines could simulate human intelligence. In 1956, the term *Artificial Intelligence* was officially coined by John McCarthy at the Dartmouth Conference, which is considered the birth of AI as a field.
During the 1960s–1970s, early AI focused on rule-based systems and symbolic reasoning, producing programs that could solve math problems or play simple games. Progress slowed in the 1970s–1980s due to limited computing power and unrealistic expectations, leading to periods known as AI winters.
In the 1990s–2000s, AI revived with better hardware, more data, and improved algorithms. Notable successes included IBM’s Deep Blue defeating chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
From the 2010s onward, AI advanced rapidly due to machine learning, deep learning, and big data. Breakthroughs in image recognition, speech processing, and natural language understanding led to modern AI systems used in healthcare, finance, transportation, and everyday digital services.
Don’t worry much if you are not getting the jargon; stand still, all will be well after the presentation.
What can AI Achieve?
Now that he have a brief background of AI “Artificial Intelligence, let’s see what it can do.*
AI can:
1.Learn from data: recognize patterns and improve over time. For example Netflix, YouTube recommendations, haaaa does it ring a bell?
2. Understand language: speech recognition, translation, chat bots. Examples: Siri on iPhones etc.
3. See and interpret images: face recognition, medical scans.
4. Make decisions: recommendations, fraud detection, game playing. Examples: computer game players, grammar correctors etc.
5. Automate tasks: virtual assistants, robots, self-driving features.
Now this AI is categorised into 3 categories.
1. Narrow AI
2. General AI
3. Super intelligent AI
Of course due to diversity of knowledge, there could be more out there but today let’s focus on these 3.
Let’s start with *Narrow AI
This is the most common type of AI known by many and it’s designed for single specific tasks.
For example Chat bots, voice assistants, facial recognition and recommendation systems.
And this is where we feed on
Let’s move forward, *General AI
Can perform any intellectual task a human can, it can reason, learn and adapt across domains. In this category that’s where we have the most humanoid robots like Diella, Albania first robot prime minister.
We are not going to talk of third category in this presentation because it’s deep stuff for giants.
Now, so most of us as public we operate on the first category “NARROW AI” and we want to see how we can equip ourselves on this, to rocket the growth of our businesses.
So I realised many of us we only know chatgbt as AI but there are many that can be used for different tasks and they can only perform best if they are used correctly.
For us to better understand and consumption of my package here. I have classified again type of NARROW AI and here are they.
1. Now let’s talk of these in their classes.
These help with drafting text, brainstorming ideas, creating marketing copy, and more:
ChatGPT (Free Tier) – Generate emails, proposals, product descriptions, and brainstorm business ideas.
Copy.ai – AI-assisted marketing copy, captions, blog intros, and sales text.
Grammarly – Checks grammar, improves tone, and enhances clarity in all business writing.
And the subscription costs for those that needs payments is mainly nothing compared to the reward they give.
So now there’s a problem associated with these. We have to understand that these are machines, they need a clear description of what you really want for them to give the best result.
Are we still together
Tools to create or edit images, graphics, and visuals:
Did you know that a clear description of all those flyer, business cards and many more, these days designers use AI to create them?
A clear definition of a flyer, business card or a poster you want on canva can suprise your eyes with what will see.
So on this we have:
Canva AI – AI design assistant for social posts, flyers, presentations, and basic AI image generation.
Photoroom – Remove backgrounds and create professional product photos for e-commerce.
OpusClip / Pictory *AI* – Turn long videos into short clips suitable for social media.
They are available also for free, but for a better experience a subscribed member like you will get the best experience .
*4. Marketing & Social Media*
AI tools that help grow your audience and improve outreach:
Mailchimp AI (Free Plan) Create and optimize email campaigns with *AI* suggestions.
Wix ADI – Build a business website quickly using *AI* (design + content).
*Canva Magic Studio* – Smart templates and content resizing for multi-platform visuals.
**5.Customer Support & Automation*
*Add intelligent automation to your support channels* :
*Tidio AI Chatbot* (Free Tier) – AI chatbot for FAQs, bookings, and customer engagement.
*Durable AI Website Builder* – Quickly generate a website, including forms and contact automation (popular free option for business sites).
So there’s another one I left out for a reason
It’s called SUNO.
SUNO creates original, full songs with vocals and instrumentals from simple text prompts, allowing anyone to generate music by describing a genre, mood, or theme, or by providing their own lyrics, making music production accessible and fast for users of all skill levels.
In short we are saying.
Justa simple can text can be made into a song and today we are going to make one here maybe for this presentation describing how each and every one who was following felt about it
So for now because of our time I will open this time for questions.
